Religion and Mythology
- According to myth, Huitzilopochtli directed the wanderers to found a city on the site where they would see an eagle devouring a snake perched on a fruit-bearing nopal cactus.
- Huitzilopochtli is their main god also called el Patron God.
- They build a Temple in the central of Tenochtitlan.
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- The religion of The Aztecs was polytheistic, based on the worship of a multitude of personla gods, most of them with well-defined attributes.
- They had any type of gods for Example: Tezcatlipoca "simbolyzed night sky," Huitzipochtli "the god of migration," Tlaloc "god of water and vegetation," Tlaltecuhtli "the earth god," Mictlantecuhtli "the god of death."
- The Aztecs believed that the gods had created the world multiple times. I n their Mythology it was in Teotihuacan that the gods created the world in which the Aztecs lived.
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